European Athletics Championships 2006 / Results men

At the European Athletics Championships in 2006 , 24 men's competitions were held.

100 m

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Francis Obikwelu	POR	9.99 CR
2	Andrei Yepishin	RUS	10.10 NO
3	Matic Osovnikar	SLO	10.14 NO
4th	Ronald Pognon	FRA	10.16
5	Mark Lewis-Francis	GBR	10.16
6th	Dariusz Kuć	POLE	10.21
7th	Dwain Chambers	GBR	10.24
8th	Ronny Ostwald	GER	10.38

Date: August 8, 7:40 p.m.

Wind: +1.3 m / s

Francis Obikwelu, who was subsequently declared European Champion 2002 in 2006, did not have to give everything in any of the four races to still win each time with aplomb. In the finals he was the first runner to stay under ten seconds at the European Championships.

200 m

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Francis Obikwelu	POR	20.01 NO
2	Johan Wissman	SWE	20.38 NO
3	Marlon Devonish	GBR	20.54
4th	Kristof Beyens	BEL	20.57
5	Ivan Tyoplych	RUS	20.76
6th	Eddy De Lépine	FRA	20.77
7th	David Alerte	FRA	20.93
8th	Anastasios Gousis	GRE	20.94

Date: August 10, 8:45 p.m.

Wind: +1.6 m / s

Francis Obikwelu is the first sprinter in 28 years to win gold in both the 100 and 200 meters . Pietro Mennea was last successful in 1978 in Prague . While the Swede Johan Wissman surpassed himself in front of his home crowd and twice improved the national record, Marlon Devonish managed to repeat his third place from 2002 .

400 m

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Marc Raquil	FRA	45.02
2	Vladislav Frolov	RUS	45.09 PB
3	Leslie Djhone	FRA	45.40
4th	Daniel Dąbrowski	POLE	45.56
5	Andrea Barberi	ITA	45.70
6th	Timothy Benjamin	GBR	45.89
7th	Rafał Wieruszewski	POLE	45.97
8th	Dimitrios Regas	GRE	46.23

Date: August 9, 8:45 p.m.

Fifty meters from the finish, the Russian Vladislav Frolov looked like the sure winner. But Marc Raquil had significantly better stamina on the home straight, so that he was able to pass the Russians shortly before the finish. The 400-meter run was the first decision at the 2006 European Championships, in which not a single participant in the 2002 finals made it to the 2006 finals .

800 m

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Bram Som	NED	1: 46.56
2	David Fiegen	LUX	1: 46.59
3	Sam Ellis	GBR	1: 46.64
4th	Dmitrijs Miļkevičs	LAT	1: 46.70
5	Miguel Quesada	ESP	1: 46.91
6th	Florent Lacasse	FRA	1: 46.95
7th	Andrea Longo	ITA	1: 47.11
8th	Michael Rimmer	GBR	1: 47.66

Date: August 13, 3:10 p.m.

The announcement of the result was delayed because a protest had been lodged against the result because of jostling in the final spurt. However, this was rejected. Bram Som won the first runner's gold for a Dutchman since 1982 . David Fiegen won the first ever European Championship medal for Luxembourg.

1500 m

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Mehdi Baala	FRA	3: 39.02
2	Ivan Heschko	UKR	3: 39.50
3	Juan Carlos Higuero	ESP	3: 39.62
4th	Arturo Casado	ESP	3: 40.86
5	Sergio Gallardo	ESP	3: 41.24
6th	Andrew Baddeley	GBR	3: 42.31
7th	Christian Obrist	ITA	3: 42.59
8th	Liam Reale	IRL	3: 42.65

Date: August 9th, 7:20 pm

Mehdi Baala was able to defeat Ukrainian Iwan Heschko and the three Spaniards with a long sprint, all other finalists were already behind at the beginning of the last round. Baala managed to successfully defend his title, this time having a significantly larger lead at the finish than at the photo finish in 2002 .

5000 m

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Jesús España	ESP	13: 44.70
2	Mohammed Farah	GBR	13: 44.79
3	Juan Carlos Higuero	ESP	13: 46.48
4th	Halil Akkas	DOOR	13: 46.53
5	Khalid Zoubaa	FRA	13: 55.09
6th	Henrik Skoog	SWE	13: 56.34
7th	Pablo Villalobos	ESP	13: 58.25
8th	Gert-Jan Liefers	NED	13: 58.70

Date: August 13, 4:40 p.m.

There was no runner in the finals who was in the final in 2002 . As in all running decisions for the men from 800 meters upwards, there was also a sprint decision in the last race before the season finale after a cautious initial pace. In contrast to the other races, one of the favored Spaniards won after co-favorite Alistair Ian Cragg from Ireland was injured.

10,000 m

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Jan Fitschen	GER	28: 10.94 PB
2	José Manuel Martínez	ESP	28: 12.06
3	Juan Carlos de la Ossa	ESP	28: 13.73
4th	Christian Belz	SUI	28: 16.93
5	Serhiy Lebid	UKR	28: 19.14
6th	Dmitri Maximov	RUS	28: 20.43
7th	André Pollmächer	GER	28: 22.56 PB
8th	Driss El Himer	FRA	28: 30.09

Date: August 8th, 8:20 pm

The German 10,000 meter runner Jan Fitschen surprisingly became European champion and relegated the favored Spaniards José Manuel Martínez and Juan Carlos de la Ossa to second and third place. The Swiss Christian Belz took fourth place. Fitschen even surpassed Dieter Baumann, who finished second on this long distance at the last European Championships in Munich in 2002 and in Budapest in 1998 .

marathon

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space	athlete	country	Time (h)
1	Stefano Baldini	ITA	2:11:31
2	Viktor Röthlin	SUI	2:11:49
3	Julio Rey	ESP	2:12:36
4th	Luc Krotwaar	NED	2:12:44
5	Francesco Ingargiolo	ITA	2:13:04
6th	Dmitry Semyonov	RUS	2:13:09
7th	Janne Holmén	FIN	2:13:10
8th	Alberto Chaíça	POR	2:13:14

Date: August 13, 12:10 p.m.

A group of four emerged from a tightening of pace after thirty kilometers, consisting of the Italians Stefano Baldini and Francesco Ingargiolo as well as the Swiss Viktor Röthlin and the Spaniard Julio Rey. The defending champion, the Finn Janne Holmén, could not follow either. Ingargiolo and Rey were also left behind up to kilometer 35, and the Dutchman Luc Krotwaar caught up with them from behind. Baldini and Röthlin stayed together up to forty kilometers, the Swiss could no longer follow an increase in pace by the Italian. For the bronze medal there was a duel between Rey and Krotwaar, which the Spaniard won.

110 m hurdles

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Staņislavs Olijars	LAT	13.24
2	Thomas Blaschek	GER	13.46
3	Andrew Turner	GBR	13.52
4th	Igor Peremota	RUS	13.55
5	Robert Kronberg	SWE	13.57
6th	Jens Werrmann	GER	13.73
7th	Dániel Kiss	HUN	13.77
8th	Serhiy Demydyuk	UKR	13.96

Date: August 12, 5:40 p.m.

Wind: −1.0 m / s

At the first European championships in 1934 , the Latvian walker Jānis Daliņš became European champion. The Olijars gold medal was the second gold for Latvia at European championships after 72 years. Olijars also succeeded four-time European champion Colin Jackson through his victory . The final was held with a headwind of 1.0 m / s. For the only 21-year-old German Jens Werrmann, the entry into the final was already a success after he had run his personal best with 13.60 s in the run-up and had been able to repeat the same time in the semifinals.

400 m hurdles

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Periklis Iakovakis	GRE	48.46
2	Marek Plawgo	POLE	48.71
3	Rhys Williams	GBR	49.12
4th	Naman Keïta	FRA	49.13
5	Sébastien Maillard	FRA	49.54
6th	Gianni Carabelli	ITA	49.60
7th	Minas Alozidis	GRE	49.61
8th	Alexandr Derevyagin	RUS	50.31

Date: August 9th, 8:10 pm

The result of the final showed no surprises, Periklis Iakovákis had set the best time in advance, Marek Plawgo and Naman Keïta were among the favorites because of their experience, Rhys Williams had a fast best time from the Commonwealth Games. The course of the race, however, was quite a surprise, as Williams was still well behind after the last hurdle. Nevertheless, he was able to just overtake Keïta, who was experienced both as a hurdler and as a relay runner, in the run-out.

3000 m obstacle

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Jukka Keskisalo	FIN	8: 24.89
2	José Luis Blanco	ESP	8: 26.22
3	Bouabdellah Tahri	FRA	8: 27.15
4th	Mustafa Mohamed	SWE	8: 27.79
5	Antonio David Jimenez	ESP	8: 28.78
6th	Radosław Popławski	POLE	8: 29.33
7th	Günther Weidlinger	AUT	8: 29.54
8th	César Pérez	ESP	8: 30.40

Date: August 11th, 7:25 pm

The European record holder Simon Vroemen did not make the final because of an upset stomach. The Spaniards around the defending champion Antonio David Jiménez slowed down the pace to defeat the supposedly fastest in the field, the Frenchman Bouabdellah Tahri, in a sprint. As in the 10,000 meter run , this tactic led to an outsider with great sprint force becoming the European champion. Jukka Keskisalo is the first Finnish European champion in this discipline. Presumably the two-time Finnish Olympic champion Volmari Iso-Hollo would have won the obstacle course at the first European championships in 1934 , but the obstacle course was only included in the program at the second European championships in 1938 . Iso-Hollo's big days were over.

4 × 100 m relay

space	country	Athletes	Time (s)
1	Great Britain	Dwain Chambers Darren Campbell Marlon Devonish Mark Lewis-Francis	38.91
2	Poland	Przemysław Rogowski Łukasz Chyła Marcin Jędrusiński Dariusz Kuć	39.05
3	France	Oudéré Kankarafou Ronald Pognon Fabrice Calligny David Alerte	39.07
4th	Russia	Maxim Mokroussow Mikhail Yegorischew Roman Smirnow Alexander Smirnow	39.29
5	Germany	Alexander Kosenkow Marius Broening Sebastian Ernst Ronny Ostwald	39.38
6th	Italy	Luca Verdecchia Stefano Anceschi Massimiliano Donati Francesco Scuderi	39.42
7th	Ukraine	Roman Bublyk Kostjantyn Wasjukow Anatoly Dowhal Dmytro Hlushchenko	39.54
8th	Netherlands	Timothy Beck Caimin Douglas Guus Hoogmoed Patrick van Luijk	39.64

Date: August 13, 3:30 p.m.

4 × 400 m relay

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	France	Leslie Djhone Ydrissa M'Barke Naman Keïta Marc Raquil	3: 01.10
2	Great Britain	Robert Tobin Rhys Williams Graham Hedman Timothy Benjamin	3: 01.63
3	Poland	Daniel Dąbrowski Piotr Kędzia Piotr Rysiukiewicz Rafał Wieruszewski	3: 01.73
4th	Germany	Kamghe Gaba Florian Seitz Ruwen Faller Bastian Swillims	3: 02.83
5	Ukraine	Olexij Ratschkowskyj Andrij Twerdostup Vitalij Dubonossow Jewhen Sjukow	3: 04.33
6th	Romania	Vasile Boboş Florin Suciu Cătălin Câmpeanu Ioan Vieru	3: 04.53
7th	Russia	Konstantin Swetschkar Evgeny Lebedew Alexander Larin Wladislaw Frolow	3: 04.73
8th	Spain	David Melo David Testa Salvador Rodríguez Santiago Ezquerro	3: 04.98

Date: August 13, 5:10 p.m.

Leslie Djhone and Naman Keïta were already part of the 2002 French relay that won bronze. Marc Raquil was subsequently declared World Champion 2003 with the other two . Raquil and Djhone won individual medals in the 400-meter run in Gothenburg . Given this starting point, the biggest surprise was that the win for the French was relatively close. Raquil fought a thrilling duel with the Pole Rafał Wieruszewski for almost the entire final lap before he could break away on the home straight. Shortly before the finish line, Timothy Benjamin passed the Pole. His compatriot Piotr Rysiukiewicz was already in the season finals of the European Championships for the fourth time. After silver in 1998 he was able to win his second medal.

20 km walking

space	athlete	country	Time (h)
1	Francisco Javier Fernández	ESP	1:19:09
2	Valery Borchin	RUS	1:20:00 PB
3	João Vieira	POR	1:20:09 NO
4th	Viktor Burayev	RUS	1:20:12
5	Sergei Bakulin	RUS	1:20:50
6th	Matej Tóth	SVK	1:21:39
7th	Erik Tysse	NOR	1:22:13
8th	Giorgio Rubino	ITA	1:22:34

Date: August 8, 5:15 p.m.

The defending champion Francisco Javier Fernández pulled away from the rest of the field early on and marched confidently to another win. The chasing group consisted only of the three Russians for a long time, but the Portuguese João Vieira was able to catch up with this group and won bronze with a new national record.

50 km of walking

space	athlete	country	Time (h)
1	Yohann Diniz	FRA	3:41:39 PB
2	Jesús Ángel García	ESP	3:42:48
3	Yuri Andronov	RUS	3:43:26
4th	Trond Nymark	NOR	3:44:17
5	Mikel Odriozola	ESP	3:46:34
6th	Roman Magdziarczyk	POLE	3:47:37
7th	Marco de Luca	ITA	3:48:08 PB
8th	Peter Korčok	SVK	3:51:16

Date: August 10, 9:40 a.m.

The Norwegian Trond Nymark set a fast pace and the field split up quickly. Nymark was in the lead until a few kilometers from the finish, but was then overtaken one after the other by the medal winners. With his victory, Yohann Diniz secured the first ever gold medal for a French walker.

high jump

space	athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Andrei Silnow	RUS	2.36 CR
2	Tomáš Janků	CZE	2.34 PB
3	Stefan Holm	SWE	2.34
4th	Linus Thornblad	SWE	2.34 PB
5	Yaroslav Rybakov	RUS	2.30
6th	Niki Palli	ISR	2.27
6th	Nicola Ciotti	ITA	2.27
6th	Svatoslav tone	CZE	2.27

Date: August 9th, 6:10 pm

The Olympic champion Stefan Holm was clearly favored in front of the home crowd. In an exciting final, however, the young Andrei Silnow had the best form of the day and mastered every height in the first attempt. The real surprise was the silver medal for the experienced Tomáš Janků, the amount of which was not to be expected. The two Swedes only finished third and fourth.

Pole vault

space	athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Alexander Awerbuch	ISR	5.70
2	Tim Lobinger	GER	5.65
2	Romain Mesnil	FRA	5.65
4th	Matti Mononen	FIN	5.65
5	Przemysław Czerwiński	POLE	5.65
6th	Oleksandr Kortschmid	UKR	5.60
7th	Giuseppe Gibilisco	ITA	5.50
8th	Laurens Looije	NED	5.50

Date: August 13, 1:45 p.m.

Twenty jumpers took part in the final after the qualification was canceled due to rain. It also rained in the final and the great heights were therefore not reached. The Israeli Alexander Awerbuch was able to successfully defend his title from Munich in 2002 . Tim Lobinger won his third medal at the European Championships after silver in 1998 and bronze in 2002. From a German point of view, it was disappointing that the reigning German champion Lars Börgeling broke the bar three times in the final at his starting height of 5.5 m. He thus produced a so-called Salto Nullo and retired early as a seemingly promising medal candidate.

Long jump

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Andrew Howe	ITA	8.20
2	Greg Rutherford	GBR	8.13
3	Oleksiy Lukashevytsch	UKR	8.12
4th	Viktor Kuznyetsov	UKR	7.96 PB
5	Kafétien Gomis	FRA	7.93
6th	Nelson Évora	POR	7.91
7th	Ruslan Gataullin	RUS	7.91
8th	Louis Tsatoumas	GRE	7.84

Date: August 8, 5:25 p.m.

Andrew Howe had been favored even before the European Championships and won the qualification convincingly with 8.33 m. In the final, he didn't have to use all his skills to win over young Briton Greg Rutherford. The defending champion Olexij Lukaschewytsch won the bronze medal. Only these three jumpers could surpass the eight-meter mark. In Munich 2002 only two jumpers managed to do this. The two German participants Sebastian Bayer (7.66 m) and Daniel Koenig (7.36 m) were eliminated in the qualification.

Triple jump

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Christian Olsson	SWE	17.67
2	Nathan Douglas	GBR	17.21
3	Marian Oprea	ROU	17.18
4th	Nelson Évora	POR	17.07
5	Phillips Idowu	GBR	17.02
6th	Daniil Burkenja	RUS	16.98
7th	Viktor Jastrebow	UKR	16.94
8th	Mykola Sawolajnen	UKR	16.84

Date: August 12, 3:50 p.m.

The defending champion Christian Olsson was clearly superior to his competitors. He jumped the distance to victory in the second attempt. His jumps after that were all overstepped. In particular, his third attempt would have been even better than the winning distance. Olsson won the third gold medal for the host country Sweden at these European championships.

Shot put

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Ralf Bartels	GER	21.13
2	Joachim Olsen	THE	21.09
3	Rutger Smith	NED	20.90
4th	Pavel Sofjin	RUS	20.55
5	Andy Dittmar	GER	19.95
6th	Tomasz Majewski	POLE	19.85

Date: August 7th, 6:45 pm

After a constant series in which all five attempts were valid and were over twenty meters, Ralf Bartels was able to improve his best performance up to then in this competition from 20.55 m to 21.13 m in the sixth attempt and moved from fourth to first Increase space.

The silver medal went to the Dane Joachim Olsen with a width of 21.09 m. Bronze went to Rutger Smith from the Netherlands. The second German athlete Andy Dittmar finished fifth after the doping disqualification of the Belarusian Andrej Michnewitsch with 19.95 m.

The Ukrainian Jurij Bilonoh was initially sixth. He was later disqualified because of doping.

Due to repeated doping offenses, all of Andrei Michnewitsch's results - here a second place - have been canceled since August 2005.

Discus throw

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Virgilijus Alekna	LTU	68.67
2	Gerd Kanter	EST	68.03
3	Aleksander Tammert	EST	66.14
4th	Mario Pestano	ESP	64.84
5	Michael Möllenbeck	GER	64.82
6th	Piotr Małachowski	POLE	64.57
7th	Rutger Smith	NED	64.46
8th	Lars Riedel	GER	64.11

Date: August 12, 4:30 p.m.

After bronze in 1998 and silver in 2002 , Virgilijus Alekna finally won the first ever gold medal for Lithuania at European Championships in 2006. The two Estonians Gerd Kanter and Aleksander Tammert on the squares and the Latvian Staņislavs Olijars in the hurdles made the penultimate day of the European Championships 2006 the Day of the Balts.

Hammer throw

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Olli-Pekka Karjalainen	FIN	80.84
2	Vadsim Dsevyatousky	BLR	80.76
3	Markus Esser	GER	79.19
4th	Szymon Ziółkowski	POLE	78.79
5	Krisztián Pars	HUN	78.34
6th	Primož Kozmus	SLO	78.18
7th	Karsten Kobs	GER	77.93

Date: Postponed from August 11, 7:30 p.m. to August 12, 1:45 p.m.

After the competition was postponed by one day due to rain showers and the resulting delays in the decathlon, it began to rain again right on time at the beginning of the finals. This increased the number of failed attempts in this final. In 2014, Iwan Zichan , who had already been convicted of doping several times, was subsequently disqualified for another doping offense.

Javelin throw

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Andreas Thorkildsen	NOR	88.78
2	Tero Pitkämäki	FIN	86.44
3	Jan Železný	CZE	85.92
4th	Vadim's Vasiļevskis	LAT	83.21
5	Ainārs Kovals	LAT	81.65
6th	Peter Esenwein	GER	81.11
7th	Stefan Müller	SUI	80.87 NO
8th	Alexander Ivanov	RUS	80.09

Date: August 9, 7:10 p.m.

After the resignation of four-time European champion Steve Backley , Andreas Thorkildsen, a reigning Olympic champion, was able to win the javelin throw for the first time since 1971 . Jan Železný took third place again twenty years after his first European Championship participation. The Swiss Stefan Müller again set a national record in the final after he had already surpassed the old record in qualifying.

Decathlon

space	athlete	country	Points
1	Roman Šebrle	CZE	8526
2	Attila Zsivóczky	HUN	8356
3	Alexei Drozdov	RUS	8350 PB
4th	Alexander Pogorelow	RUS	8245
5	Pascal Behrenbruch	GER	8209 PB
6th	Alyaksandr Parchomenka	BLR	8136 PB
7th	Stefan Drews	GER	8105
8th	Romain Barras	FRA	8093

Date: August 10th and 11th,
1985 scores

The world record holder and Olympic champion Roman Šebrle was able to defend his title from 2002 successfully and largely safely. Behind him, the experienced Hungarian Attila Zsivóczky came in second in an exciting battle for medals, mainly because Alexander Pogorelow once again destroyed all the chances in the 1,500 meter run that he had previously laboriously built up. Of the three German participants, the youngest, Pascal Behrenbruch, turned out to be the (nerve) strongest; In the final 1500 meter run, however, he stayed 22 seconds above his best time and thus missed the medal chance. So he had to wait six years before winning the title at the 2012 European Championships . The entire competition was interrupted several times due to heavy rain showers, which significantly affected the results in the jumping disciplines.

See also

Results of the 2006 women's competitions

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alexandra Neuhaus: Doping: Three Ukrainian athletes blocked , www.leichtathletik.de April 4, 2013
2. ^ IAAF: Andrei Mikhnevich (BLR) - results annulled from August 2005 . July 31, 2013
3. ↑ Iwan Zichan originally won the competition, but was convicted of doping in 2014. As a result, all his results between August 22, 2004 and August 21, 2006 were canceled. Revision of results following sanctions of Tsikhan and Ostapchuk . IAAF. April 27, 2014. Retrieved July 25, 2015.

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Göteborg 2006 on european-athletics.org, accessed on June 28, 2017
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2006 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed June 28, 2017
• 19th European Athletics Championships 2006 in Gothenburg, Sweden from ifosta.de, accessed on June 28, 2017
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2006 on sportschau.de, accessed on June 28, 2017
• Highlights of the EM 2006 on Leichtathletik.de, accessed on June 28, 2017
• Francis Obikwelu win 100m European Champ Goteborg 2006 , video posted March 31, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed June 28, 2017
• 2006 European Championship 800m men Final Goteborg 06 , video published on February 28, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed on June 28, 2017
• 10,000m EM 2006 ZDF Jan Fitschen , video published on June 29, 2009 on youtube.com, accessed on June 28, 2017
• 2006 European Championships Men's Shot Put - 1st Ralf Bartels , video published January 1, 2009 on youtube.com, accessed June 28, 2017
• 2006 European Championships Men's Discus - 1st Virgilijus Alekna , video published January 1, 2009 on youtube.com, accessed June 28, 2017
• Javelin Throw - Andreas Thorkildsen European championships - Sweden 2006 , video published on November 25, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed on June 28, 2017